8 sentences with 'regimes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word regimes and other words derived from it.
• « Indeed, historians have now shown that not only Europe, but also the world's major states, from Ming China, to the Ottoman Empire, to European colonial regimes in America, all suffered civil wars, invasions or religious conflicts at that time, and that climate was a major causal factor. »
• « In turn, despite the practical impossibility of doing so in most cases, there were real attempts by many conservative regimes after Napoleon's defeat to turn back the clock completely, to try to sweep the reforms of the revolutionary era under the collective carpet. »
• « Although conservative regimes eventually retained power, the very definition of conservatism and the methods conservatives used were altered by the revolutions. »
• « The political structure of the newly united nation of Germany set it apart from the much more liberal regimes of Britain and France. »
• « This involved three tendencies. First, colonial regimes expropriated land from the people who lived there. This was done by force, supported by pseudo-legal means: unless a given person or group had legal title in the Western sense to the land they lived on, they could have it confiscated. »
• « Second, colonial regimes expropriated raw materials such as rubber, which was usually shipped to Europe to be processed into finished products. »
• « Third, colonial regimes exploited native labour. This was sometimes in the form of outright slavery as in the Congo, the Portuguese African colonies and forced labour in the French and German colonies. »
• « In 1989, the Eastern Bloc communist regimes crumbled as it became clear that the USSR would not intervene militarily to prop them up as it had done in the past. »